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What impact has the War on Terror had on American policing?
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Aggressive border discourse transcends the physicality of the border and attaches itself to the v... more Aggressive border discourse transcends the physicality of the border and attaches itself to the very bodies of the policed population. In this sense, the border is a metaphor of belonging, linked to social geographies as much as spatial ones.
For the United States to engage in unilateral armed conflict and cite the right to legitimate sel... more For the United States to engage in unilateral armed conflict and cite the right to legitimate self-defense is a perversion of the normative framework initially designed to govern wars. In the last decade, the United States has underwritten a program of militarized manhunting which is indistinguishable from assassination. As the most powerful military force in the world, the United States must be checked by international governing bodies.
There is a line of reasoning shared by police officials, police unions, legislators, and civil ri... more There is a line of reasoning shared by police officials, police unions, legislators, and civil rights organizers that supposes that videos of the police behaving badly will naturally lead to reform. This is the logic that fuels expensive body camera programs, like the ones implemented by the NYPD, LAPD, and Department of Justice. However, the idea that surveillance in the hands of the state can be somehow emancipatory is laughable. To equate the footage of Rodney King or Eric Garner with footage taken from police cameras is to fundamentally misunderstand the nuance that images express. Existing social vulnerabilities migrate seamlessly into new technologies, and photography’s dominant mode is to reinforce, not resist, existing structures of power.
Aggressive border discourse transcends the physicality of the border and attaches itself to the v... more Aggressive border discourse transcends the physicality of the border and attaches itself to the very bodies of the policed population. In this sense, the border is a metaphor of belonging, linked to social geographies as much as spatial ones.
For the United States to engage in unilateral armed conflict and cite the right to legitimate sel... more For the United States to engage in unilateral armed conflict and cite the right to legitimate self-defense is a perversion of the normative framework initially designed to govern wars. In the last decade, the United States has underwritten a program of militarized manhunting which is indistinguishable from assassination. As the most powerful military force in the world, the United States must be checked by international governing bodies.
There is a line of reasoning shared by police officials, police unions, legislators, and civil ri... more There is a line of reasoning shared by police officials, police unions, legislators, and civil rights organizers that supposes that videos of the police behaving badly will naturally lead to reform. This is the logic that fuels expensive body camera programs, like the ones implemented by the NYPD, LAPD, and Department of Justice. However, the idea that surveillance in the hands of the state can be somehow emancipatory is laughable. To equate the footage of Rodney King or Eric Garner with footage taken from police cameras is to fundamentally misunderstand the nuance that images express. Existing social vulnerabilities migrate seamlessly into new technologies, and photography’s dominant mode is to reinforce, not resist, existing structures of power.